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(00:00):
Tim Rushlow, Good morning, sir. Thank you so much for coming first
and foremost of being on the phone, am for agreeing to come to help
our EMS Celebration and Appreciation Day onSaturday. Oh man, we're so excited
about coming in being a part ofI mean, we love to sing just
because we love to sing, butgetting the sing for a great cause is
a whole other blessing. So gettingto honor the men and women that are
(00:20):
out there in the EMS world thatare you know, whether they're paramedics,
firefighters or all the above, justhelping people in need. It's such a
cool things that we're honored to getto come and do two things, get
to sing, and get to doit for a great boss. And you're
going to be singing for a groupof people in South Carolina. I don't
know how long it's been since youperformed here. You know, it's been
a bit, I mean it has, and we're excited to get back to
town. Of course, you know, with my former group at Little Texas
(00:44):
and I know Richie from Lone Starand Larry Stewart from Russell's Heart, we
have all traped across all the landof South Carolina. And what a great
state it is, and we're excitedto get back as the front men.
Of course, that's a whole otherstory we can get into before we get
off the phone. But we're excitedabout what the front Men are doing,
and we're I mean, there's justso many good things going on right now,
it's kind of hard to contain it. We know. It's funny because
(01:06):
when I first heard about your bandcalled Little Texas, I had often made
reference to And you have to becareful who you make this reference too,
because South Carolina's very prideful people muchlike Texas. There are a lot of
personality traits that are shared commonalities betweenTexas and South Carolina. And before I
even heard the name of your band, I would sometimes reference South Carolina as
(01:29):
a Little Texas. So when Iheard Little Texas for the first time,
I'm like, I don't know whothese guys are, but I know that
they're just like me. You aregoing to be playing in Little Texas.
Oh man, that's a really bigcompliment. I appreciate that very much.
You know, it's funny. LittleTexas is actually a community in a holler
about thirty miles south of Nashville thatwas known for making moonshine. I did
(01:53):
not know that that's true. Andso we used to rehearse our old record
executive from Warner Brothers, Doug Grauowned thirty acres there and had an old
house there, and Milan was themiddle of nowhere, and we couldn't get
in trouble out there, and itsfirst cranking up the volume. So we
would rehearse that. We would rehearseout there, and the neighbors would come
(02:13):
listen to us. They would bringus drugs, the moonshine. But the
truth is the big rule was backduring Prohibition. They would say the law
would come out there, but they'dnever go out. Everybody wore gun belts
and it was like the wild wildWest, and so they literally named the
area Little Texas. In the streetwe rehearsed on later was named Little Texas
Lane because that's where the Minute familywas from and they were the main moonshiners
(02:37):
at the time. And so that'sa crazy story. But although some of
us are from Texas, but I'dbe happy to say I'm from South Carolina.
You guys got a great stake well, you know, And it's funny
because I knew you were from Oklahomaor yep, I was born in ten
Grip for space, yes, sir, And because musicians become an interesting collection
of people, and there are alwaysdifferent subsets of musicians, whether they meet
(02:59):
up in Austin or now Ashville oron the road, or there's certain subsets
that suddenly click and become a bandor or really enjoy being around each other.
So I didn't know if that wasjust grew as an evolution out of
a group of musicians that you hadknown throughout your years. But let's talk
specifically about Larry Stewart or Restless Heartand Richard McDonald and when you when they
(03:19):
play with Tim Rushlo on stage andthe lights come on the stage, what
are we going to hear from thefront men? Thank you for clarifying all
that, because you know, whenpeople hear the name of the front Men,
they're not going to know who thatis. Yet they will after we
come to town. I promise youthat where the show opens. We have
so many I mean, between thethree of us, we've got thirty million
records sold and thirty number one hits. Right, we've got fifty seven charted
top ten hits besides that, Soit's hard to fit all that into an
(03:43):
hour and a half two hour show. So we open with a big medley,
a number one of ten number onehits in a row. Wow.
And literally when we're done with thatmedley, I tell everybody, Hey,
we're the front Men. And ifthat medley doesn't let you know who we
are, I'm sorry, you know. So that's how that's how we started.
And then you know it is sucha blast, you know, after
the true story and I'll make thislike literally one minute. We started twelve
(04:08):
years ago going overseas, playing forthe military and playing for the men and
women in uniform, And every Januarywhen our bands weren't touring, the three
of us would go over there unpluggedand play and we love doing it.
We did it every year for years, and we knew there was something special
to it. There was a commonthread amongst our vocals that just seemed to
be like brotherly harmony and blood harmony. And then after COVID we all sat
(04:29):
down, you know what, Iwonder what the world will think about this?
Would anybody even care if we decidedto call it the front Men and
go out and play. We bookedsome shows. It was instantaneous it was
like wow, the response was incredible. And then of course now we've wrote
new music, created a brand newalbum. We signed with BMG Nashville,
which is a huge label. Literally, we announced it at the Academy Country
(04:51):
Music Awards this last week. Ourfirst single to radio ever and our first
single for the three of us inover fifteen years, goes to radio this
week, and it's called Beatles andEagles. That song is mowing people over
live. We're very excited about it, and so we've got so much going
on. You can stream it downloaded. The album's already dropped, so if
somebody wants to, if they're curiousto want to hear it, then just
(05:12):
whatever music they listen to streaming itcan just go pick it up and download
it and listen to it and allthat stuff. But we're we're excited because
the show is full of hits.This is not We're not that group where
you hear two or three songs,you know, on four, then you
hear a bunch of skinnered covers orwhatever. We're not doing that, right.
I think I think we played coversongs of our own songs. You
know, it is it is.I mean the fact that I get to
(05:35):
sing Blue is Eyes in Texas withLarry Stewart, and I get to sing
Amazed with Richie McDonald and they wouldtell you, I get to sing out
Bus Texas and what might have beenwith Tim Rushlow. It's like it is
a real thrill. It's a vocalpowerhouse and I'm so proud to be a
part of you know, we actuallybelieve it or not. We rehearsed,
we practice, we're really taken careof ourselves where we're singing better than ever
(05:57):
and hopefully we still don't look toobad. And you know, we're we're
just tickled to death where we're going. And with this new record deal,
in the new album and all thehits we have from our past, no
one has ever really done this,and so it's it's quite an opportunity for
us, and we're to tickle thedeath that we get. We call what
we're doing with you guys, thisis the Connect the Dot tour. This
is where we connect the dots fromour past hits to the future hits.
(06:18):
And it's exciting, you know.So I mean there won't be there won't
be a song you hear. We'relike, oh, I don't know that
one now you'll know that one.You know there, it's just chuck full
of that and it's a lot offun. We actually really have a great
time. We've got a great show. It's energetic, We've got some great
production. You know, we're carryingeverything with us and so it's it's gonna
sound and look great. I mentionedwith Texas and South Carolina have a lot
(06:41):
of commonalities, not unlike the ruralparts or maybe even Nashville, Tennessee.
One of the things that we reallyappreciate, as you mentioned the military,
but also just for people who servethe community because within EMS is such a
huge umbrella of the number of jobdescriptions available and that's some of the things
that young people will be here tolearn about on SAT with the appreciation Day,
and there's scholarship money's available for youngpeople who want to have a career
(07:04):
under the EMS umbrella. EMS muchlike the military, I guess more so
with the EMS, because we don'tsee the military in our in our driveway,
but we see EMS workers sometimes unfortunatelyin our driveway. Do you have
any kind of brush with the EMSor maybe a family member that maybe was
part of this motivation for you tobe a part of this. Yeah,
(07:25):
my uncle Bill in Oklahoma City wasa firefighter, is slash EMS medic for
years and is retired now and hewas incredible at it. And ironically,
my best friend Mark Wodell, whois a Navy seal retired now after twenty
five years a commander on his daughterJenna, is now an EMS flight nurse
in Oklahoma City as well. AndI mean she's in that helicopter every day,
(07:46):
you know, risking life and limbjust to get the people that need
help the most, you know,And I mean minus open heart surgery.
There's a lot that can do inthis the EMS helicopters and in these ambulances,
and so you know, unfortunately,we're all at some point in our
life to need that. I personallyhad some emergency brain surgery a few years
ago and I needed a helicopter ride, and I needed an ambulance, and
(08:07):
I needed a lot of it,and I needed it fast. And I'm
still here because of that, Andso there's a lot of a lot of
love from us coming that way.Well. The great thing too, just
hearing about the frontmen, is thatit sounds like with your shared experiences and
reaching out and performing for the military. That there is no ego challenge,
just getting to the three of youon stage. You love playing music with
(08:30):
each other, and I can't waitto hear this interesting combination between Richie McDonald
alone star, Larry Stewart of RestlessArt, and this man, Tim Rushlow
of Little Texas. It's going tobe a big day Saturday. I'm excited
about seeing your stage performance. Well, I appreciate the kind words. Man.
You're hired, You're a great promoguy. We're going to bring you
out on the road with us.You're doing a great job, and I
(08:50):
really appreciate the kind words. Youknow. It's the thing I can tell
you about us is we're actually verygrateful. You know that we have a
great country to live in, andthat we have great people to take care
of us in this country. Andthe fact that we've got a record deal.
I mean, listen, I'm fiftyseven years old. I know I
don't look at it. I knowI look thirty. But the truth is,
you know, we in the inthe youth driven market of country music,
(09:13):
we're probably the chances of us havinga record deal are pretty slim,
pretty slim at best. So thefact that the BMG signed us and says,
hey, you know what, ninetiescountry has never been hotter. You
guys are played like crazy, yousound great. Why would we not put
new music out on you. Sowe're we're so thrilled for the opportunity.
And really, you know, mybig rule in life is if you don't
(09:35):
if you don't give, you don'tget. And we love to give.
And if we can give through ourmusic and let people know what we're doing,
then everybody wins, including us.And it's such a such a thrill,
so I mean, and getting tooplay for a great cause just makes
it that much sweeter. So ifanybody out there's wonder what you're going to
be doing on Saturday, you don'twant to miss this show. This is
going to be one for the ages. And we're just thrilled to death to
(09:56):
be coming to town. We've gota BMG are our label. We just
started our radio tour hitting all thestations we can hit, and they've already
labeled us the No Ego band becauseyou know, we'll walk in We'll walk
into the station with a guitar anda keyboard and we'll play for anybody that
wants to hear you know, andsometimes after a show somebody will say,
hey, you didn't play this song, and Richie'll grab a guitar and we'll
just go over to the fans tostart playing it for them. We just
(10:20):
know, we know who butters ourbread, and it's the fans of music.
And without them, we don't havea career. And with that,
you at radio play in our music, we don't have a career. So
we're in our safe zone and ourfriend zone and so we're excited to be
coming to town and playing with youguys, and of course we're we love
South Carolina, so it's going tobe a great Saturday. Well, I
am excited to know that you're goingto be a part of this because it's
(10:43):
going to be the first ever forour state, the EMS Appreciation celebration that's
going to start it. The gate'sgoing to open like eleven thirty in the
morning because there's all kinds of stufffor the family. There's touches, truck
ambulance, things for people to learnmore, young people to learn more about
academics and how to get involve withthe MS. And then we're gonna wrap
it up with you guys on stagethat night. And I think you're gonna
be the perfect crescendo to good littleTexas, South Carolina, family fun with
(11:11):
incredible country music. And I'm excitedto hear you guys on stage. And
I appreciate you taking the time totalk to me today. Absolutely, Jonathan,
you have a great day and wewill see you on Saturday. Brother,
you got it, man,
Tim Rushlow, Good morning, sir. Thank you so much for coming first
and foremost of being on the phone, am for agreeing to come to help
our EMS Celebration and Appreciation Day onSaturday. Oh man, we're so excited
about coming in being a part ofI mean, we love to sing just
because we love to sing, butgetting the sing for a great cause is
a whole other blessing. So gettingto honor the men and women that are
(00:20):
out there in the EMS world thatare you know, whether they're paramedics,
firefighters or all the above, justhelping people in need. It's such a
cool things that we're honored to getto come and do two things, get
to sing, and get to doit for a great boss. And you're
going to be singing for a groupof people in South Carolina. I don't
know how long it's been since youperformed here. You know, it's been
a bit, I mean it has, and we're excited to get back to
town. Of course, you know, with my former group at Little Texas
(00:44):
and I know Richie from Lone Starand Larry Stewart from Russell's Heart, we
have all traped across all the landof South Carolina. And what a great
state it is, and we're excitedto get back as the front men.
Of course, that's a whole otherstory we can get into before we get
off the phone. But we're excitedabout what the front Men are doing,
and we're I mean, there's justso many good things going on right now,
it's kind of hard to contain it. We know. It's funny because
(01:06):
when I first heard about your bandcalled Little Texas, I had often made
reference to And you have to becareful who you make this reference too,
because South Carolina's very prideful people muchlike Texas. There are a lot of
personality traits that are shared commonalities betweenTexas and South Carolina. And before I
even heard the name of your band, I would sometimes reference South Carolina as
(01:29):
a Little Texas. So when Iheard Little Texas for the first time,
I'm like, I don't know whothese guys are, but I know that
they're just like me. You aregoing to be playing in Little Texas.
Oh man, that's a really bigcompliment. I appreciate that very much.
You know, it's funny. LittleTexas is actually a community in a holler
about thirty miles south of Nashville thatwas known for making moonshine. I did
(01:53):
not know that that's true. Andso we used to rehearse our old record
executive from Warner Brothers, Doug Grauowned thirty acres there and had an old
house there, and Milan was themiddle of nowhere, and we couldn't get
in trouble out there, and itsfirst cranking up the volume. So we
would rehearse that. We would rehearseout there, and the neighbors would come
(02:13):
listen to us. They would bringus drugs, the moonshine. But the
truth is the big rule was backduring Prohibition. They would say the law
would come out there, but they'dnever go out. Everybody wore gun belts
and it was like the wild wildWest, and so they literally named the
area Little Texas. In the streetwe rehearsed on later was named Little Texas
Lane because that's where the Minute familywas from and they were the main moonshiners
(02:37):
at the time. And so that'sa crazy story. But although some of
us are from Texas, but I'dbe happy to say I'm from South Carolina.
You guys got a great stake well, you know, And it's funny
because I knew you were from Oklahomaor yep, I was born in ten
Grip for space, yes, sir, And because musicians become an interesting collection
of people, and there are alwaysdifferent subsets of musicians, whether they meet
(02:59):
up in Austin or now Ashville oron the road, or there's certain subsets
that suddenly click and become a bandor or really enjoy being around each other.
So I didn't know if that wasjust grew as an evolution out of
a group of musicians that you hadknown throughout your years. But let's talk
specifically about Larry Stewart or Restless Heartand Richard McDonald and when you when they
(03:19):
play with Tim Rushlo on stage andthe lights come on the stage, what
are we going to hear from thefront men? Thank you for clarifying all
that, because you know, whenpeople hear the name of the front Men,
they're not going to know who thatis. Yet they will after we
come to town. I promise youthat where the show opens. We have
so many I mean, between thethree of us, we've got thirty million
records sold and thirty number one hits. Right, we've got fifty seven charted
top ten hits besides that, Soit's hard to fit all that into an
(03:43):
hour and a half two hour show. So we open with a big medley,
a number one of ten number onehits in a row. Wow.
And literally when we're done with thatmedley, I tell everybody, Hey,
we're the front Men. And ifthat medley doesn't let you know who we
are, I'm sorry, you know. So that's how that's how we started.
And then you know it is sucha blast, you know, after
the true story and I'll make thislike literally one minute. We started twelve
(04:08):
years ago going overseas, playing forthe military and playing for the men and
women in uniform, And every Januarywhen our bands weren't touring, the three
of us would go over there unpluggedand play and we love doing it.
We did it every year for years, and we knew there was something special
to it. There was a commonthread amongst our vocals that just seemed to
be like brotherly harmony and blood harmony. And then after COVID we all sat
(04:29):
down, you know what, Iwonder what the world will think about this?
Would anybody even care if we decidedto call it the front Men and
go out and play. We bookedsome shows. It was instantaneous it was
like wow, the response was incredible. And then of course now we've wrote
new music, created a brand newalbum. We signed with BMG Nashville,
which is a huge label. Literally, we announced it at the Academy Country
(04:51):
Music Awards this last week. Ourfirst single to radio ever and our first
single for the three of us inover fifteen years, goes to radio this
week, and it's called Beatles andEagles. That song is mowing people over
live. We're very excited about it, and so we've got so much going
on. You can stream it downloaded. The album's already dropped, so if
somebody wants to, if they're curiousto want to hear it, then just
(05:12):
whatever music they listen to streaming itcan just go pick it up and download
it and listen to it and allthat stuff. But we're we're excited because
the show is full of hits.This is not We're not that group where
you hear two or three songs,you know, on four, then you
hear a bunch of skinnered covers orwhatever. We're not doing that, right.
I think I think we played coversongs of our own songs. You
know, it is it is.I mean the fact that I get to
(05:35):
sing Blue is Eyes in Texas withLarry Stewart, and I get to sing
Amazed with Richie McDonald and they wouldtell you, I get to sing out
Bus Texas and what might have beenwith Tim Rushlow. It's like it is
a real thrill. It's a vocalpowerhouse and I'm so proud to be a
part of you know, we actuallybelieve it or not. We rehearsed,
we practice, we're really taken careof ourselves where we're singing better than ever
(05:57):
and hopefully we still don't look toobad. And you know, we're we're
just tickled to death where we're going. And with this new record deal,
in the new album and all thehits we have from our past, no
one has ever really done this,and so it's it's quite an opportunity for
us, and we're to tickle thedeath that we get. We call what
we're doing with you guys, thisis the Connect the Dot tour. This
is where we connect the dots fromour past hits to the future hits.
(06:18):
And it's exciting, you know.So I mean there won't be there won't
be a song you hear. We'relike, oh, I don't know that
one now you'll know that one.You know there, it's just chuck full
of that and it's a lot offun. We actually really have a great
time. We've got a great show. It's energetic, We've got some great
production. You know, we're carryingeverything with us and so it's it's gonna
sound and look great. I mentionedwith Texas and South Carolina have a lot
(06:41):
of commonalities, not unlike the ruralparts or maybe even Nashville, Tennessee.
One of the things that we reallyappreciate, as you mentioned the military,
but also just for people who servethe community because within EMS is such a
huge umbrella of the number of jobdescriptions available and that's some of the things
that young people will be here tolearn about on SAT with the appreciation Day,
and there's scholarship money's available for youngpeople who want to have a career
(07:04):
under the EMS umbrella. EMS muchlike the military, I guess more so
with the EMS, because we don'tsee the military in our in our driveway,
but we see EMS workers sometimes unfortunatelyin our driveway. Do you have
any kind of brush with the EMSor maybe a family member that maybe was
part of this motivation for you tobe a part of this. Yeah,
(07:25):
my uncle Bill in Oklahoma City wasa firefighter, is slash EMS medic for
years and is retired now and hewas incredible at it. And ironically,
my best friend Mark Wodell, whois a Navy seal retired now after twenty
five years a commander on his daughterJenna, is now an EMS flight nurse
in Oklahoma City as well. AndI mean she's in that helicopter every day,
(07:46):
you know, risking life and limbjust to get the people that need
help the most, you know,And I mean minus open heart surgery.
There's a lot that can do inthis the EMS helicopters and in these ambulances,
and so you know, unfortunately,we're all at some point in our
life to need that. I personallyhad some emergency brain surgery a few years
ago and I needed a helicopter ride, and I needed an ambulance, and
(08:07):
I needed a lot of it,and I needed it fast. And I'm
still here because of that, Andso there's a lot of a lot of
love from us coming that way.Well. The great thing too, just
hearing about the frontmen, is thatit sounds like with your shared experiences and
reaching out and performing for the military. That there is no ego challenge,
just getting to the three of youon stage. You love playing music with
(08:30):
each other, and I can't waitto hear this interesting combination between Richie McDonald
alone star, Larry Stewart of RestlessArt, and this man, Tim Rushlow
of Little Texas. It's going tobe a big day Saturday. I'm excited
about seeing your stage performance. Well, I appreciate the kind words. Man.
You're hired, You're a great promoguy. We're going to bring you
out on the road with us.You're doing a great job, and I
(08:50):
really appreciate the kind words. Youknow. It's the thing I can tell
you about us is we're actually verygrateful. You know that we have a
great country to live in, andthat we have great people to take care
of us in this country. Andthe fact that we've got a record deal.
I mean, listen, I'm fiftyseven years old. I know I
don't look at it. I knowI look thirty. But the truth is,
you know, we in the inthe youth driven market of country music,
(09:13):
we're probably the chances of us havinga record deal are pretty slim,
pretty slim at best. So thefact that the BMG signed us and says,
hey, you know what, ninetiescountry has never been hotter. You
guys are played like crazy, yousound great. Why would we not put
new music out on you. Sowe're we're so thrilled for the opportunity.
And really, you know, mybig rule in life is if you don't
(09:35):
if you don't give, you don'tget. And we love to give.
And if we can give through ourmusic and let people know what we're doing,
then everybody wins, including us.And it's such a such a thrill,
so I mean, and getting tooplay for a great cause just makes
it that much sweeter. So ifanybody out there's wonder what you're going to
be doing on Saturday, you don'twant to miss this show. This is
going to be one for the ages. And we're just thrilled to death to
(09:56):
be coming to town. We've gota BMG are our label. We just
started our radio tour hitting all thestations we can hit, and they've already
labeled us the No Ego band becauseyou know, we'll walk in We'll walk
into the station with a guitar anda keyboard and we'll play for anybody that
wants to hear you know, andsometimes after a show somebody will say,
hey, you didn't play this song, and Richie'll grab a guitar and we'll
just go over to the fans tostart playing it for them. We just
(10:20):
know, we know who butters ourbread, and it's the fans of music.
And without them, we don't havea career. And with that,
you at radio play in our music, we don't have a career. So
we're in our safe zone and ourfriend zone and so we're excited to be
coming to town and playing with youguys, and of course we're we love
South Carolina, so it's going tobe a great Saturday. Well, I
am excited to know that you're goingto be a part of this because it's
(10:43):
going to be the first ever forour state, the EMS Appreciation celebration that's
going to start it. The gate'sgoing to open like eleven thirty in the
morning because there's all kinds of stufffor the family. There's touches, truck
ambulance, things for people to learnmore, young people to learn more about
academics and how to get involve withthe MS. And then we're gonna wrap
it up with you guys on stagethat night. And I think you're gonna
be the perfect crescendo to good littleTexas, South Carolina, family fun with
(11:11):
incredible country music. And I'm excitedto hear you guys on stage. And
I appreciate you taking the time totalk to me today. Absolutely, Jonathan,
you have a great day and wewill see you on Saturday. Brother,
you got it, man,
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